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Worth a try and post the results here.Totally going to have to try this next spring! My mandy and wrasses would love the snack.
It's way to cold here now, and soon to be very cold(not unheard of to be -20F for weeks on end).
Might try it in the house through a window though. I have one set of windows that gets bright sunlight most of the day.
I want to do this to keep a supply of pods for the mandarin I am going to add to my 180 reef. The answer is unclear to me re: if this works for Tisbe pods - the ones mandarins love. Also unclear - does it need to be outside or would a fish light work? REALLY no circulation? easy I can add an entire banana peel to create green water and then add spirulina to keep feeding the population.
Can I get photos or a video of each step? everyone is showing the pods after they hatch but what are you adding?
thanks!!
did you try this yet? Inside or outside? What did you use for food?I now have another project to kick off.
This looks really awesome and dare I say, too easy lol. We will see!!!
Qs
Do you cover it
Won't rain water dilute it
What about top off for evaporation
I am currently culturing pods in doors and feeding them the phyto I also culture.did you try this yet? Inside or outside? What did you use for food?
Yes it was hot in July and August. I am in monmouth county and I think you live north of me. Since you have yours indoors, did you put an air-line in the container?I am currently culturing pods in doors and feeding them the phyto I also culture.
The reason I didn't try this yet is because of the summer heat.
It doesn't get too hot where he's at but here in NJ July and August may be too hot for this. But next spring I will try this.
Yes with very little air flow just a couple of bubbles a secondYes it was hot in July and August. I am in monmouth county and I think you live north of me. Since you have yours indoors, did you put an air-line in the container?
What army? What army?! Look around you, Krabs!And a quick scoop to feed my fish.
I never do seed it with phyto.@atoll
I mixed up some saltwater in a 5g bucket with a banana peel and left it outside. Its been outside for a week and the water is just like cloudy. Was I suppose to seed the water with some type of phyto?
i used one leaf of a banana skin.I never do seed it with phyto.
Did you just put a small piece of skin in say no more than a leaf at most? The container also needs some sun. I used old tank water never newly mixed. Does it make a difference? I don't honestly know but the above is what I do and it's worked everytime. It may possibly go brown before going green.
I can definitely see how this would work:
During last water change I was coaxing a couple of little amphipods out of my filter material anyway to look at in brother-in-law's digital microscope.
Remembered this thread (with video by atoll) so decided to experiment on a small scale:
-- little Tupperware container with dirty water and crud from my discard bucket.
-- manipulated out about 6-8 amphipods out of my filter material.
-- didn't have any bananas for about 5 days but finally found a fresh/green banana so threw in a chunk of peel.
A week or two later I assumed I didn't really try hard enough so was about to just toss the water but took a closer look anyway.
There's at least 30, barely-visible, tiny critters crawling around in there now!
Here's the original microscope view (not of the new babies), just for fun:
Here's my mini-experiment, just to show how tiny/simple it is:
*no way I could get my phone to capture pic/vid of the babies but, to be sure, they're alive and kicking